#dignity

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention. ↗

— Benny Green

#brown #could #dignity #four #had

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creditor #dignity #master #only #owns

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#dignity #education #intelligence #respect #education

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#life #longing #poetry #pride #sense-of-wonder

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today: abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, the increase of child abuse and violence of all kinds, pornography ... , the routine torture of political prisoners in many parts of the world, the crime explosion, and the random violence which surrounds us. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#violence #life

Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. ↗

— George Eliot

#dignity #life

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se? ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#domination #love #patriarchy #love

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #dignity #feelings #hide #literature

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#men

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#both #career #complexities #different #dignity